(Tomas) Munk was a Jesuit novice killed by the Nazis.
He was born in Budapest on January 29, 1924 as the
first son of a Jewish couple. After conversion in 1939
he was received in the Catholic Church. Munk studied in
Bratislava and partly in Ruzomberok. He decided to
become priest in the Society of Jesus where he entered
on July 30, 1943. In the autumn of 1944, Nazi soldiers
came in Ruzomberok. After several months the whole
family was arrested and the Nazi eventually came to the
Novitiate and to...(+)
(Tomas) Munk was a Jesuit novice killed by the Nazis.
He was born in Budapest on January 29, 1924 as the
first son of a Jewish couple. After conversion in 1939
he was received in the Catholic Church. Munk studied in
Bratislava and partly in Ruzomberok. He decided to
become priest in the Society of Jesus where he entered
on July 30, 1943. In the autumn of 1944, Nazi soldiers
came in Ruzomberok. After several months the whole
family was arrested and the Nazi eventually came to the
Novitiate and took him away as a Jewish convert.
According to a fellow novice, now a respected Jesuit,
Tomas Munk confided to him having prayed all night in
the Novitiate chapel: “I have sacrificed my life for
my nation, for its conversion and for the Church.”
Munk was killed on the way to the concentration camp.
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